Design Scenarios

Designing Interactive Scenarios

Interactive scenarios allow people to learn to make the appropriate decisions in real-life situations. They’re also effective in assessing a learner’s real understanding of the content. In this session, we’ll explore scenario building strategies that are engaging and relevant to the learner.

Resources

Diverse Examples Different Layouts

The examples below are not all robust scenarios. However, they give you some ideas on different ways to design the screen and choices/feedback.

• Quick decisions
• Chat/text
• Comic Book
• FasterCourse
• Square
• Walking a Night
• Medical

Articles

• Storyline: How to Create Custom Layouts for Interactive Scenarios
• Rise: How I Built This Interactive Scenario
• 3C Model: Build Branched E-Learning Scenarios in Three Simple Steps
• Your Branched Scenario Needs to Look Like Something. Is this it?
• Create a Pre-Assessment Scenario for E-Learning
• How to Build Better Interactive Scenarios for E-Learning
• 7 Tips for Better E-Learning Scenarios
• An Easy Way to Build Branched Scenarios for E-Learning

E-Learning Challenges

Good examples and ideas.

• Visual Design Ideas for E-Learning Scenarios
• Decision Map to Branching Scenarios
• Preventing Workplace Violence: E-Learning Scenarios
• How Are You Using Branching Scenarios in E-Learning?

Downloads

• Presentation (PDF)